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Rebuilding The British Bombe Which Cracked Enigma (demon.co.uk)
2 points by kqr2 on March 29, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Enigma was really cracked in Poland years before WWII. Then after German invasion Polish mathematicians moves to France, then to Great Britain, and here continue work.

It always makes me sad when people forget about their ingenious work, and in Hollywood films it always looks like all that was done by English speaking people.

Sources: http://www.enigmahistory.org/enigma.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine




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